Shark Night 3D (2011)

Shark Night 3D Synopsis

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis (The Final Destination, Snakes On a Plane), featuring a red-hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan (90210, Slither), Chris Carmack (The O.C.), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider Man) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny).

Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast.

But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.

Sometimes little movies with great stories that get less credit than they deserve tank at the box office. Sometimes they just barely make it. This Labor Day weekend a worthy movie that would usually get overlooked is continuing to win big.

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Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the end of the summer, and to give the warm season a gory sendoff, Snakes on a Plane director David R. Ellis is back with Shark Night 3D, which gives you the chance to see a group of nubile teens don their bathing suits and then get chewed up by a shark

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Getting a jump on nearly every other studio trying to get attention for their movies with crazy stunts, Relativity Media threw a party last night in honor of Shark Night 3D, the latest water-based experiment in horror from Snakes on a Plane and The Final Destination director David R. Ellis

Anyone expecting the ridiculous over the top fun of Piranha will be disappointed, because Shark Night has already been announced as PG-13.
That doesn’t mean it won’t contain plenty of girls in bikinis. Actually, judging from the images we’ve gotten from the film so far, that may be just about all it contains.

Last August Alexandre Aja did his very best to terrify you with fish in Piranha 3D. Amping up the gore to 11, the film was basically 88 minutes of mutant fish slaughtering teens on spring break. The sequel to that film, Piranha 3DD, is due out in November, but those needing their fix of aquatic-based horror can look to David Ellis' Shark Night 3D.

The poster sticks to the same basic elements that made up the first image from the film-- hot girl and a toothy shark. It's also surprisingly dark for what's presumably a bouncy late-summer goof, and between the gray palette and the rhyming title I can't help but think they're going for

Check out the image below, in which Sara Paxton isn't quite as protected as she'd like to be by the shark diving cage. The movie also stars Dustin Milligan, Joel David Moore, Chris Carmack and Katharine McPhee, and you can safely assume only one or two of them will make it to the end credits

As if to dash all of our hopes that bad 3D would cease after Clash of the Titans, David R. Ellis has taken it upon himself to steer Shark Night 3D directly into a barrier reef where it will surely sink